Gerry McCoy sliding
As seen on Motoblog, here’s a Gerry McCoy powerslide. Pure 100% motorbike poetry…
Nicky Hayden does a baby burnout on the Ducati Diavel
Nicky Hayden definitely deserves a raise from Ducati. They send him on all their PR junkets and at the LA Auto Show, where Ducati and Mercedes AMG announced their partnership and they had him ride out about two feet on…
Eyjafjallajökull Strikes Again, Yoshimura Suzuki will Miss Assen WSBK Debut
Yoshimura Suzuki who revealed last January that they would be debuting at the World Superbike round at Assen this upcoming weekend, has had to call off their racing plans because they’re not able to get to the Dutch track due…
KTM Supermoto Rookies Cup. Dates, general info and pictures
For young riders between 16 and 23 years-old the KTM Supermoto Rookie Cup is on its way. If you fall into this age group, and you have talent (or think you do) and want to display it, don’t think twice.…
Max Biaggi awarded the 2012 Casco d'Oro
Motosprint decided to hold their annual Caschi D’Oro awards ceremony yesterday evening at the EICMA show in Milano (they didn’t hold it last year because of the death of Marco Simoncelli ) and taking home two awards this year as…
Audi R8 by Graf Weckerle
German tuner Graf Weckerle has released details and pictures of its new rendition of the Audi R8. The most distinctive feature of the package is that set of ultra-light multi-piece forged 20″ rims, fitted with in 245/30 R 20 and…
More Silly Season – Barberà gets offers from Gresini and Poncharal
The MotoGP silly season game has become so popular that now we have a new player, Héctor Barberà. Barberà currently rides for Pepe World Team in the 250cc series and he too wants to make the jump to the premier…
Sylvain Guintoli officially announced as Aprilia rider
After impressing in this week’s three-day private World Superbike test at Jerez (Monday through Wednesday) Aprilia has finally gotten around announcing - as it was widely expected - that Sylvain Guintoli will be part of their factory team effort next…
BMW Vision EfficientDynamics videos
After the first details released of the BMW Vision EfficientDynamics hybrid concept to appear at the Frankfurt motor show this month, here are the first official videos demonstrating the concept car and its impressive design.The quite spectacular car has a…
Valentino Rossi Snow Sculpture
A giant 6×3x3 mt snow sculpture of Valentino Rossi on his Yamaha M1 created by Samuel Perathoner from Santa Cristina, won 1st prize in the 14th Edition of the Snow Sculpture Competition that takes place in the ski resort town…
MotoGP: Repsol Honda 2010 Team Launch (w/video)
With the start of the 2010 MotoGP season that starts in April, the Repsol Honda Team held its official launch at the Palacio de Deportes in Madrid, Spain. In front of 7000 fans who were present for the penultimate round…
John Hopkins in WSBK? Maybe Not
With still no news about Kawasaki and the fate of riders John Hopkins and Marco Melandri and official MotoGP tests starting on Thursday, Hopkins is now being rumoured to be considering a move to the WSBK Championship to partner up…
Ulster Grand Prix: Guy Martin claims treble in Northern Ireland
Just a few hours after the renewal of his contract with the Tyco Suzuki team for another year, Briton Guy Martin clinched a sensational hat-trick at the 2013 Ulster Grand Prix, historically one of the most important events in the…
2012 Beijing Motor Show: attack of the clones!
Here we are in the final stages of our live from Beijing with a small collection of clones seen at the Show. Let’s just call them clones, because among these images we have copied copies, licensed copies, license to copy…
125 and Moto2 Testing at Motorland Aragon
Over 40 riders from the 125cc class and Moto2 after the Catalunya GP headed to another part of Spain, to the new Motorland Aragon race track for a two day test session organized by Pere Gurt of Tuenti Moto2 Racing…
Maverick Vinales issues public apology
Maverick Vinales has personally confirmed that he will be racing at Phillip Island this weekend and has issued a statement with public apologies (via the official MotoGP website) to everyone, following his walk-out on his team at Sepang.“Firstly I would…
World Superbike, Superstock and Supersport riders get the dope on anti-doping
MotoGP riders weren’t the only ones to get the lowdown on anti-doping, the Superbike, Supersport and Superstock riders also got briefed during the Assen round last weekend.The FIM’s Medical Director, Dr David McManus and Evelyne Magnin, the FIM Medical &…
Alfa 149 – will it be like this ?
The design of the Alfa Romeo 149 (expected in 2008) is being finalized in these days. Italian magazine Quattroruote has published a new computer-generated image, based on photos “escaped” from Arese. The heir to the 147 Hatchback will be based…
Chris Vermeulen talks about FP1 at Mugello
Chris Vermeulen is a great guy, after every free practice, qualifying and race he takes the time to go on line to explain to us racing fans, what happened during each session and his personal impressions, much nicer than any…
Cartoon: Jorge Lorenzo vs Marco Simoncelli, Italian style
Motoblog’s celebrated comic artist Luca Ruggeri has come up with another of his corrosive ideas to depict the Estoril GP war of words that went down between Jorge Lorenzo and Marco Simoncelli.The comic shows some sort of armed truce between…
Yamaha loses Petronas as sponsor
After losing title sponsor Fiat last year, Yamaha Racing Team had relied on Yamaha Indonesian and Malaysian petroleum giant Petronas to partially fund their racing effort, now Yamaha and Petronas have jointly announced that this sponsorship will be ending this…
Dani Pedrosa blistering lap breaks qualifiying record at Valencia
After a wet practice and two mixed ones, for the first time this MotoGP weekend the Ricardo Tormo circuit at Valencia was dry, but windy for final qualifying session of the 2012 season - it’s also the final time that…
Leon Haslam, very sunburned and very naked
World Superbike rider Leon Haslam got hitched to longtime girlfriend Olivia Stringer in the middle of December and is currently honeymooning in Borneo.Apparently the new BMW rider forgot that the island is on the equator and you need UV protection…
NGM Forward Racing MotoGP and Moto2 team presentation
The IRTA Moto2 tests are currently underway at Jerez de la Frontera (with Thomas Luthi leading the field in the first two days) and MotoGP to follow at the end of the week, so NGM Forward Racing took advantage of…
Aprilia Max Biaggi superbike replicas
Aprilia is releasing three products as Max Biaggi replicas, including a scooter, and these RS 50 and RS 125 superbike models. The new livery is the same as that of the Aprilia RSV4 superbike, which has had everyone talking in…